Dr Wyngaard is a Mechatronics Engineer with a passion for open source technologies. She holds an undergraduate degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she also completed her Doctorate focused on microprocessor design for Scientific High-Performance Computing. Following a post-doctoral position building BigData analytics tools for Earth Science at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, she joined the University of Notre Dame's Center for Research Computing as a Computational Scientist. She is pursuing her research interests in building embedded open-source hardware, and software tools for Science applications including; using Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems and connected Edge Computing for data capture, data analytics, and Management on Embedded Systems, and connecting High-Performance Computing resources to limited resource edge devices. She currently Lectures Embedded Systems and Electrical-Computer Engineering Systems In the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Cape Town, while continuing to pursue research avenues in Edge Computer Architecture, IoT system architectures, Drones, and Automated Data Tooling.
